Vegan MoFo 2016!

It’s been a year since the last Vegan MoFo, and I’m sure some of you have been eagerly awaiting news of this year’s event! Well, the good news is you’ve not missed it – and you still have two months to prepare. VeganMoFo 2016 will be held in the month of November. We hope this gives you the chance to explore different seasonal foods, embrace cooking for the holidays, and share with the rest of us your wonderful creations.

This year, we’re giving you three options for participating:

1) Weekly themes (which will be listed below!). You can interpret these themes whichever way you like, and use them to inspire your posts!

2) Daily prompts (which will be also listed below). These tie in with the weekly themes, but give you more specific ideas to follow. You can use all of them, or just a few!

3) Choose your own theme. You don’t need to follow any of our themes if you don’t want to – come up with your own and use that instead! So long as it’s vegan, everything goes.

You can also participate on whichever platform you like – blog, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, all participation is encouraged, just follow the #veganmofo and #vgnmf16 hashtags.

More information will be released soon about sign ups, and other exciting bits, but in the meantime – get your cooking brain on!

The themes and daily prompts are listed below. Remember – you can follow these as closely or as loosely as you like (or even choose your own). These are just ideas to get your creative juices running!

Week 1: 1st-6th November 2016 Treat Yourself (and others)!

1st: Your favourite food – What is your favourite food? Make it and share!2nd: How to make friends – What’s your go to “impress me” meal?3rd: Treat yourself…to a break – What’s your “easy cook” meal? That you make when you can’t be bothered to cook much?4th: Eating out – Where do you eat when you want someone else to cook for you?5th: Late Night Snack – Tell us what you’re midnight snacking on!6th: Comfort food – Something that always cheers you up.

Week 2: 7th-13th November 2016 International Week

7th: Close to Home – Make a food from your own country, state, or hometown.8th: Far Away – If you dug straight down, where would you come out? Make something from that country!9th: Something Different – Cook a cuisine you’ve never tried before. Or, one you don’t make often enough.10th: Fusion Food – Take two cuisines and make them work together.11th: Favourite Cuisine – Where does your favourite food come from?12th: Dream Holiday Destination – what would you eat on your dream holiday?13th: Feed the Alien – An alien lands on your doorstep. What are they going to eat?

Week 3: 14th-20th November 2016 Rainbow Week

14th: Monochrome meal – Make some food that is all based around one colour only.15th: Multicolour – Fit as many colours as you can into one meal!16th: Complementary colours – For instance, Red & Green, Purple & Yellow, Blue & Orange17th: Something Rare – What colour do you rarely eat? Make something that colour!18th: Greyscale – Can you make your food look like a photo taken with a black and white camera? Or take a photo in black and white that looks great.19th: Goth Day – Blues, purples, blacks? Let your dark side shine.20th: It’s Easy Being Green – Look after the environment, or just eat green veg – go green today!

Week 4: 21st-27th November 2016 Memories & Traditions

21st: Favourite memory – What’s your favourite ever food memory? Recreate it.22nd: Silly food – What are some silly food traditions/memories you have?23rd: Autumn/Fall Traditions – Are there any foods you traditionally make in this season?24th: Thanksgiving – Americans, what are you making for Thanksgiving? Non-Americans, have a go at making something thanksgiving inspired!25th: Vegan Memories – What was your first vegan meal? Or the one you remember the most?26th: Cookbooks – Show us your favourite cookbooks!27th: Changed Opinion – Was there a food you used to hate, and now don’t?

Week 5: 28th-30th November 2016 Holidays!

28th: Holiday Bake Day! – What are you planning on baking over the winter holidays? Do you make cake, or cookies? Or something savoury?29th: Holiday Test Run – It’s always good to practice – show off your hits and misses.30th: Food Gifts – Do you like to give food as a gift? Or receive? Show/tell us!